VIDEO: Are you an effective care team player?

SAN DIEGO – Hospitalists spend one-quarter of their practice time on team-related activities, yet some could stand to improve their performance as a patient-centered care team member, Dr. Kevin J. O’Leary said in a video interview at the annual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine.

Research shows that other team professionals, especially nurses, are not pleased with how hospitalists engage and collaborate with them, said Dr. O’Leary, chief of the division of hospital medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago.

To improve communication and coordination of care, Dr. O’Leary, who is also associate chair for quality in the department of medicine at the medical school, offered some teamwork interventions, including unit-based co-leadership, that hospitalists can try at their facilities. He reported having no financial disclosures.

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SAN DIEGO – Hospitalists spend one-quarter of their practice time on team-related activities, yet some could stand to improve their performance as a patient-centered care team member, Dr. Kevin J. O’Leary said in a video interview at the annual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine.

Research shows that other team professionals, especially nurses, are not pleased with how hospitalists engage and collaborate with them, said Dr. O’Leary, chief of the division of hospital medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago.

To improve communication and coordination of care, Dr. O’Leary, who is also associate chair for quality in the department of medicine at the medical school, offered some teamwork interventions, including unit-based co-leadership, that hospitalists can try at their facilities. He reported having no financial disclosures.

[email protected]

SAN DIEGO – Hospitalists spend one-quarter of their practice time on team-related activities, yet some could stand to improve their performance as a patient-centered care team member, Dr. Kevin J. O’Leary said in a video interview at the annual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine.

Research shows that other team professionals, especially nurses, are not pleased with how hospitalists engage and collaborate with them, said Dr. O’Leary, chief of the division of hospital medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago.

To improve communication and coordination of care, Dr. O’Leary, who is also associate chair for quality in the department of medicine at the medical school, offered some teamwork interventions, including unit-based co-leadership, that hospitalists can try at their facilities. He reported having no financial disclosures.

[email protected]